I've identified a few problems with the Floor Plan Callouts.
By default, floor plan callouts inherit the properties of the parent view.
(I believe there is an error in this article, they call "Floor Plan Callouts" "View Callouts" by error)
"When you add a view callout to a view, Revit creates a view that has the same view type as the parent view. "
That is generally fine, but I don't want to create floor plans in the same series. I want to assign temporary view template to sort the new floor plans I make. However, if I assign a view template that is not dependent, the parameters are ignored! This work differently than any other view type. Revit seems to ignore the view template unless it is permanently assigned and simply copy all the original parameters, not cool!
Furthermore, there is a Detail level problem. By default, create a new floor plan in a "Medium" Level of detail view create a new floor plan with a bigger scale and a "Coarse" level of detail. It seems counter intuitive that you would make a blowup of an are to remove details!
If I try to add a non-dependant view template to change this detail level, it gets ignored halfway, even weirder. So I have a medium view, I tell it to do a Fine floor plan and it gives me a medium floor plan!
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Here's what need to be done to fix this...
When creating a new Callout Floor plan, apply the original properties settings, THEN apply the non-dependent view template properties, not in the reverse order.
When creating a new Callout Floor plan, keep or increase the detail level, do not lower it.
The last report of the view template being half applied is a clear bug. Just make it listen to what the template says and fix the bug.
